Junio C Hamano wrote: > This is slightly related, but I have been wondering about the > interaction with "single-liner summary, empty line and then the > rest" convention and various commands in the log family. > > Currently, --pretty=oneline and --pretty=email (hence format-patch) > take and use only the first line. I think we could change it to: > > - take the first paragraph, where the definition of the first > paragraph is "skip all blank lines from the beginning, and > then grab everything up to the next empty line". > > - replace all line breaks with a whitespace. [...] > If we were to do this, Subject: line would most likely use > RFC2822 line folding at the places where line breaks were in the > original, but that goes without saying. > > What do people think? I agree that it is a good idea. This would e.g. help projects which are imported from other SCM, which does not have "single-liner summary, empty line and then the rest" convention of formatting commit messages. BTW. does rebase work correctly for commits which do not use above convention? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
